Any reason why NOT getting a RME Fireface 800 ?

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I'm about to purchase the card, do you know of any problems or problematic issues with this one?

Thanks !
 
I heard some rumors (heavy salt) that it does not play well with other Firewire devices. The marketing makes it sound awfully nice, and I know it is awfully pricey. RME has a solid rep though, and, hey, someone has to be first to bleed. If you hate blood, look for something a little less cutting edge.
 
RME are a reputable company.
but its always a good idea to test sound solutions if you can
before laying down your hard earned cash. computers can be fickle beasts.
you might get a thousand systems where a sound solution works great and the 1001 pc theres some problem or other.
to protect yourself i would contact rme , detail your particular computer confign including motherboard and chipset etc and see what they say.
 
I heard some rumors (heavy salt) that it does not play well with other Firewire devices


You mean when connected along with other firewire devices on the same firewire interface ?
 
There's a ?Presonus? firewire based virtual effects processor card that had some issues with the RME Fireface. The consensus was that the RME was to blame, but who knows?? As I said earlier, the Fireface is bleeding edge tech and if you have an adversion to blood you should invest in something else or let others work through the issues before you buy. Everything is going to have issues, new stuff just tends to have more. Heck, I got a 1010LT about six months ago that I would have thought to be pretty stable tech by now, and M-Audio is still releasing new patches.

You just can't win.
 
I got mine around 10 days ago.
Nice piece. Solid metal case, sounds great.
I haven't seriously tested it yet but I gave it a quick spin in Cubase SX.
Playback at 96kHz sounded distorted, sometimes. I'm about to do a fresh XP reinstall on my laptop to rule anything out in that area.
Old projects at 44.1kHz came out clean.

What sucks about the preamps is that the gain jumps a quantum leap from 9-10 on the dial scale. It's virtually impossible to accurately set the gain when you need a lot of it.

I'm pretty confident that I'll sort out my 96kHz issue. The preamps will be fine for sensitive condensors but for some dynamics or ribbons, you probably want something else.
 
And yeah, it's an awful lot of money. I'm no pro, I won't earn it back any time soon but I just like to invest in good stuff and I can kind of afford it right now.

I'm reluctant to buy state-of-the-art computer hardware because drivers need time to mature. But RME has a great reputation. I bought it because I'm pretty confident that they'll do anything to keep up that reputation if any issue would come up.
 
Thanks,

How about the preamps ? Are they good enough ? any FAT ?
 
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